Posted on 06/14/2006 9:49:05 AM PDT by Ben Mugged
By 2003, Damian Campos, a Mexican immigrant, had seven arrests for driving under the influence in northern Colorado and used 13 different names.
Immigration officials never tried to deport him — not until he rolled a vehicle last year, killing Marcos Martinez, one of his softball teammates. Police suspect Campos was driving drunk that day in May, too, according to Colorado Bureau of Investigation and court records. A jury in Weld County deadlocked on a DUI charge but convicted Campos of vehicular homicide-reckless driving.
~snip~ That he did not come to immigration officials' notice earlier is not a surprise. DUI is not a felony in Colorado. It doesn't fall into the category of serious crimes that ICE uses as its criteria for deciding which foreign-born jail inmates to detain and possibly deport.
Campos also had been arrested in the past for fighting, resisting arrest, attempted escape, domestic violence and harassment. None of those caught ICE's attention, either.
~snip~ Sentencing for Campos was delayed at a hearing in May because of confusion over his various aliases and phony documents, including five Social Security numbers with different names and dates of birth.
Said Weld District Judge James Hartmann of Campos, who sat before him in an orange jumpsuit flanked by his attorney and an interpreter: "I don't even know if Damian Campos is his name."
Whatever his name, he will serve a 22-year sentence for Martinez's death, the judge ruled Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...
We need a solution for this illegal documentation problem.
Maybe his aliases all use the last name Kennedy.
Does he get credit for all 5 under the Senate amnesty program?
My name is Jose Jiminez.
Indeed. That would also help deter terrorists and enable employer sanctions.
he's been Penced.
He shall henceforth be known as "El Prison B*tch".
If he is a Mexican immigrant, he should have a green card that should have been cancelled long ago. With the documentation reference, I must assume we are speaking of a Criminal Alien instead. Wouldn't that make Mexico responsible for his actions?
And when applying for Citizenship does he get to add up all the years spent in the US under each name, or does he have to go with the last one he used?
Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez...
Come on! Local law enforcement has no responsibity for enforcing Federal laws!
Federal immigration law discriminates against poor, hard working wet...err....Mexicans who just want to do the work American's won't!!
There is no reason for a local Police Officer to even ask about a person's immigration status!! That's illegal and discriminatory profiling!!!
toggle/DUmba$$ Mode/off/run
"criteria for deciding which foreign-born jail inmates to detain and possibly deport."
That's the problem.
Law, or at least criteria, needs to be amended so that EVERY arrested illegal is deported, on the FIRST offense.
We need to ensure that there is no more "catch and release", they get caught, they get deported, with nothing more than what they are wearing.
Just commiting the DUI's and identity thefts Americans won't.
Let him out, give him a case of Corona and directions to the streets where Chris Cannon's relatives live & work.
"Catch and release" would be OK if the release point was the most remote crossing into Mexico.
We just had 2 innocent people killed by a drunk illegal Mexican here in Nashville the other day, when he tried to run after being stopped by police. This is on top of I don't know how many others. I hope whoever is responsible for this mess pays for it. The payment due is getting so large, it may have to be paid in the next life.
Eligivle for McAmnesty
I looked at a map of Mex.
We should be sending all the illegals to that island off of Cancun!
That island is Isle Mujares and is a very nice place. It also has boats running back and forth all day, so that is not a good place to send them.
Now, there is an island off the Pacific side that has NOTHING.
He gets a do over.
There is no documentation problem. Obviously he had no problems getting identification... < /sarc >
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